Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.