It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

Principle is a passion for truth.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.