The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

A forte always makes a foible.