I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.