A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Meditation is culture.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.