No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.