Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.