Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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

... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.