If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.