The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The pest of society is egotists.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

The shot heard round the world.