Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.