Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.