All our tastes are but reminiscences.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Argument should be polite as well as logical.