Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.