The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.