It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.