Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.