“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over over any soul be loved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. ”

“He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.”

“Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.”