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.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

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

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Leaders: Captains of industry.