The most dangerous thing is illusion.

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

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.