The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.