When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

He only is rich who owns the day.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.