"Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns!..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.”

“Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”

“Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.”

“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”

“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.”

“Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.”

“Half of the people in the world are below average.”

“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.”

“Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals”