True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Genius appeals to the future.