My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.