Quotes

Let thy reasonable faculty, work upon his reasonable faculty; show him his fault, admonish him.

You can be unconquerable if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own power to conquer.

The government that seems the most unwise, Oft goodness to the people best supplies; That which is meddling, touching everything, Will work but ill, and disappointment bring.

We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul,--the soul, free, sovereign, active.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another--for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

We are not afraid of telling over and over again how a man comes to fall in love with a woman and be wedded to her, or else be fatally parted from her.

The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Every man appeared to understand his work, and went at it with a sober, yet cheerful earnestness, which betokened the deep interest which he felt in what he was doing, as well as a sense of his own dignity as a man.

The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.

The age and time of the world is as it were a flood and swift current, consisting of the things that are brought to pass in the world.

Do not desire to be thought to know anything; and though you should appear to others to be somebody, distrust yourself.

Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world.