I Am Sure That No Traveler Seeing

Wherever The Appearance Of A Conventional Aristocracy Exists In America, It Must Arise From Wealth, As It Cannot From Birth. An Aristocracy Of Mere Wealth Is Vulgar Everywhere. In A Republic, It Is Vulgar In The Extreme.

If A Test Of Civilization Be Sought, None Can Be So Sure As The Condition Of That Half Of Society Over Which The Other Half Has Power.

I Romanced Internally About Early Death Till It Was Too Late To Die Early.

For My Own Part, I Had Rather Suffer Any Inconvenience From Having To Work Occasionally In Chambers And Kitchenthan Witness The Subservience In Which The Menial Class Is Held In Europe.

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.