An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.