The sunset glow of self-possession.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.