Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.