However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.