The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.