A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

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

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.