It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.