Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.