The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

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.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.