Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

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My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.