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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love