I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?