Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.