Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.