All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other

Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.