Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.