It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.