As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.