Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.