Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Love, and you shall be loved.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.