The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

Power is the first good.

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.