Books are embalmed minds.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.