Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
All this worldly wisdom might be regarded as the once unamiable heresy of some wise man.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!