A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.