every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.