We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.