The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.