“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”

“The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.”

“I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.”

“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”

“To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”