I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.