To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.