A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.