Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!