The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Great men never require experience.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.