Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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

Life is our dictionary.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.