The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.