Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.