The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Our prayers are prophets.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.