The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.