A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.