Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
We do not always have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.