For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.