The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.