Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.