As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!