Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.