The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.