Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Reality is a sliding door.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.