Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.