Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.