"To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend."

"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each share-holder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater."

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

"Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today."

"However mean your life is, meet it and life it...It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest."