Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!