Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.