All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

The world rests on principles.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.