Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.