In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

We are superior to the joy we experience.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.