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.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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.

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

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.