I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.