The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.