If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.