A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.