For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.