What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.