Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.