💬 Quotes

"Order and method should preside in every department; a place for everything, and everything in its place, should be the domestic motto."

"Economy does not consist in parsimoniousness, but in the prudent and judicious management of those means which are entrusted to our care."

"Christ has broken the old world, and is building a new one; but hitherto men know not what it will be like."

"Man is like a vessel: what you pour into it, that it contains."

"Pan, and the nymphs, and the dryads have fled, or have died of grief at the foot of their mutilated trees. The world is empty, because Christ has conquered."

"Beauty is a great thing, Vinicius, but truth is greater."

"Power is a wonderful thing, but love is greater still, for it subdues even death."

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

"The very waters of the beautiful gulf seemed to echo this thing, and all the light on the sea was as if it had passed through stained glass."

"You are the only you-and-me person I've ever known."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"This is a clean bed," he stipulated. "They're all clean beds," she answered. "It's a clean town. Everything's clean here.""

"The honor of being systematically romanticized by youth had gone over to Abe."

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"There is a charm about the wild, rough life of the country, and the simple folk who inhabit it, which no town-bred man can ever fully appreciate."

"The ring has had its day, and perhaps it is better so, but while it lasted it was a grand school for grit, endurance, and manhood."

"Men may change their coats and their creeds, but the blood that runs in their veins will ever cry out for the old deeds and the old ways."

"A brave man dies once, but a coward dies a thousand deaths before his time comes."

"Youth is the time for adventure, when the world is wide and every horizon holds a promise."