There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.