The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.