We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Society has no bribe for me.

Ability without honor has no value.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.