One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.