“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.”

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

True invective requires great imagination.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness is speechless.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.

If I categorized home runs that I’ve seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry’s. But I’ve seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson’s was probably the most theatrical home run I’ve ever seen.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.