Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.