I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Truth is the summit of being.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power