The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.