The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.