True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.