True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.