“Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.”

“Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin”

“Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog. ”

“What I lack in courage I more than make up for in underwear. I am possibly the bravest coward to ever go commando.”