I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.