The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.