Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.