If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

If I am not I, who will be?

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.