For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

He who hath many friends hath none.

He would make a lovely corpse.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Haze is the veil that filters the beauty of nature.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.