Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

It is never too late to do right.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.