The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.