The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.