"The world is a theatre, and we are merely players."

"To be original, one must be independent of the opinions of others."

"It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it."

"The past is a pebble in my shoe."

"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."