Colors speak all languages.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.