Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.