The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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