We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.