There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.