A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
Genius is power, talent is applicability.
An empire is an immense egotism.
You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.