The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.