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

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

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

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.