I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.