The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Ignorance never settles a question.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

The canter is a cure for every evil.