Power

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer

If there is no struggle, there is no progress

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could