Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

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.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”