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.

It is defeat which educates us.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Frankness invites frankness.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.