It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
The look of a king is itself a deed.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.