"Every man has his own secret sorrows, which the world knows not."

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."

"There are some who are good, and some who are evil. And the world is full of both."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."