Everybody's business is nobody's business.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.