Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

An empire is an immense egotism.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.