There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Children are all foreigners.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Every time you wink the stars move.