People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.