A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them understand them thoroughly. After that it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

It is better to do one's own duty however defective it may be than to follow the duty of another however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it never sins.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.