If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.