“There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think...Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course.”

“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

“But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.”

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”