Some will always be above others.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.