If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

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

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.