Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.