Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.