“Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.”

“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”

“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”

“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;And liquor likewise will I give to thee,And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.”

“From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.”

“We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”