Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.