“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.”

“Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.”

“Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.”

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ”