Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

An empire is an immense egotism.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

I think no virtue goes with size.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.