Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.