Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

All men desire to be immortal.

Humanity is the sin of God

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.