A nation never falls but by suicide.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

The best of life is conversation.

It is a luxury to be understood.

There is properly no history, only biography.

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.