Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.