Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Reading is seeing by proxy.