Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.