For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.