All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.