Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.