Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.