The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.