Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.