Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.