If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.