Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

All great men are partially inspired.