"But the soul is a sort of intensely black pearl, which, though glimmering sometimes with an awful resplendence, is yet oftenest incrusted with an unbearable scurf."

"The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!"

"The sea is the only place where I feel at home."

"No man can be a hero to his valet, nor to his wife."

"I stand for the heart, though I stand alone."