Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

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

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.