It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
The superfluous is very necessary.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.