We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.