Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

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.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.