A world where nothing is had for nothing. — Arthur Hugh Clough

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. — Victor Hugo
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? — Arthur Hugh Clough
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. — Arthur Hugh Clough
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him. — Arthur Hugh Clough