Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Don't judge a book by its cover

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.