When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Blame is safer than praise

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.