What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.