Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.