All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.