When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.