Life is a series of surprises.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.