Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
To see the world is to judge the judges.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.