Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.