“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.