Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Only now, as we feel the onslaught behind us, do we begin dimly to apprehend why the animals fought, begot, and died; and behind them the plants; and behind th…

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the Unive…