Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.