Power and speed be hands and feet.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.