What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Our thinking is a pious reception.