Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.