Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.