All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

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

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.