The curse of the great is ennui.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

Law dies, books never.