It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.