Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.