A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

London; a nation, not a city.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.