I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.