They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.