Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

The people rate strength before everything.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.