Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.