Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.