The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.