I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.