Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Ability without honor has no value.