Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

History is the new poetry.