There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.