He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.