When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.