Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
To be awake is to be alive.
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.