It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.