Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.