Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.