Every epoch dreams its successor.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.