“The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”

“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”

“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”

“Light is the symbol of truth.”

“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”