The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.