There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.