An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone