I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.