Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

There is properly no history, only biography.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.