Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.