An American Virgin Would Never Dare Command;

Nature, To Be Commanded, Must Be Obeyed. The Imagination Must Be Given Not Wings But Weights.

Thank God, I Never Was Cheerful. I Come From The Happy Stock Of The Mathers, Who, As You Remember, Passed Sweet Mornings Reflecting On The Goodness Of God And The Damnation Of Infants.

I Tell You The Solemn Truth, That The Doctrine Of The Trinity Is Not So Difficult To Accept For A Working Proposition As Any One Of The Axioms Of Physics.

No Man Likes To Have His Intelligence Or Good Faith Questioned, Especially If He Has Doubts About It Himself.

One Friend In A Life-time Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly Possible. Friendship Needs A Certain Parallelism Of Life, A Community Of Thought, A Rivalry Of Aim.