We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.