Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.