Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.