The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.