As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

Every word was once a poem.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.