“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”