A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.