We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.