But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.