I am not deep, but I am very wide.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.