If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other