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Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery

“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing