To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Nature hates calculators.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.