Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives