Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I’ll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
No words suffice the secret soul to show, for Truth denies all eloquence to Woe.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices.
Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men.
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘T is woman’s whole existence.
Man’s conscience is the Oracle of God.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Man is born passionate of body – but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his Main-spring of Mind. – But God help us all! – It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
