Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.