The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Some people are born very far from home.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.