What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.