A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.