My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

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