Quiet is what home would be without children.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. .

When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

War is hell.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?

The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition are explored in vain For a parallel to his character. In the annals of modern greatness He stands alone; And the noblest names of antiquity Lose their lustre in his presence. Born the benefactor of mankind, He united all the greatness necessary To an illustrious career. Nature made him great, He made himself virtuous.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.