Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.