A library implies an act of faith.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

To love beauty is to see light.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.