At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

What's money without happiness?

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.