Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.
The English Bible - a book which if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.