The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.