“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”

“Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.”

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

“…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…”