The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Do nothing twice over.