My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.