A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

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.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.