The world's history is the world's judgment.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Speech is always bolder than action.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.