Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.