"The works of nature must all be..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

“Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”

“O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.”

“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”

“Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.”

“... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.”

“Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.”