How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just