The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.