I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.