“Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.”
“Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse (...); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.”
“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.”
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”