As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.