Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.