Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.