A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.