"The petrifactions of a plodding brain."

"God would have made his Will known without books, considering how very few could read when Jesus of Nazareth lived, had it been His pleasure to ratify any peculiar mode of worship."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"I have always been a friend of the oppressed, and an enemy of the oppressor."

"I have a great passion for the sea, and I would rather live on a ship than on land."