Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.