What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.