Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.