Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Everything that is exact is short.