Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

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.