Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.