Youth without faith is a day without sun.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.