All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.