The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.