Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
Fame compensates for a column of wants.