How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Life is a series of surprises.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.