To know is not less than to feel.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.