Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.