I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.