Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.