Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

He only is rich who owns the day.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.