Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

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.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.