Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.