There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?