Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit.

There Are Always Principles To Be Depended Upon In This Matter Of Taxation ... Amidst The Inconsistent, The Bewildering Representations Offered, A Certain Number Must Be In Accordance With True Principles.

I Loved, As I Still Love, The Most Monotonous Life Possible.

Everything But Truth Becomes Loathed In A Sick-room ... Let The Nurse Avow That The Medicine Is Nauseous. Let The Physician Declare That The Treatment Will Be Painful. Let Sister, Or Brother, Or Friend, Tell Me That I Must Never Look To Be Well. When The Time Approaches That I Am To Die, Let Me Be Told That I Am To Die, And When.

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.

Authorship Has Never Been With Me A Matter Of Choice. I Have Not Done It For Amusement, Or For Money, Or For Fame, Or For Any Reason But Because I Could Not Help It.