I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.