Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.