Power is the most persuasive rhetoric

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from my brow -- No night but hath its morn

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand