Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.