Faith never makes a confession.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.