No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.