He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.