Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

The public is a bad guesser.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.