Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?