I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.