If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Men in all ways are better than they seem

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.