The highest end of government is the culture of men.
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.