Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.