One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

There is no cosmetic like happiness

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Haste is always ungraceful.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.