If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!