Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
A character is a completely fashioned will.