We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

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

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.