If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

Life is short, but art lives forever.