The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.