Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.