Every time you wink the stars move.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

Truth is the summit of being.