It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.