Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Power is neither male nor female.