The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. Dante.
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Epes Sargent.
The human voice has an authority and an 5 insinuating property which writing lacks. Joubert.
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. St. Paul.
The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. Bishop Hall.
The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. Carlyle.
The Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there in a very sorry way. Carlyle.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never 10 located. Mme. de Sévigné.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose; from which it follows that no youth can be a master. Goethe.
The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Mme. Swetchine.