The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.