We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.