The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.