With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.