I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.