"The man who has a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound."

"I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split into planks."

"I am a lover of Mankind, and a believer in the divinity of man."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively."

"I am a moral, a religious, and a political bigot. I am for the most rigorous morality, the most fervent religion, and the most uncompromising politics."