Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.