Is not light grander than fire?

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

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