The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

All history is biography.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.