All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.