It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.