Who said “He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.”?

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”

“Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.”

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

“I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.”

“If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.”

“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”