He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.