Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.