Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief