Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.