There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.