"The older I grow, the more I dislike the cant of all kinds, and especially religious cant."

"I am not a believer in the infallibility of any human institution."

"It was a dark and stormy night."

"I am a man who has always been very sensitive to the opinions of others, and I have always been very anxious to stand well with them."

"I have been so beset, and so worried, and so torn by the anxiety of this new book, that I have been made ill by it."