Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.