Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.