Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.