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

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.