Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.