The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.