Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.