It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.