There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.