The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore

Knowledge exists to be imparted

We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them

The man for whom the law exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.

The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist . . .