Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

I say that justice is truth in action.