Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.