A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.