In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

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

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!