Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.