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

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.