Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

A man is a god in ruins.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.