Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.