I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.