Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.