I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.