Every noble activity makes room for itself..

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims..

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love..

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions ….

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world..

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision..

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret vir….

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other..

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome..

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race..

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard..

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity..

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honore….

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it..

Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again..

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone..

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a governme….

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and convers….

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light..

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but ….