We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.