Where there is no vision a people perish.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.