Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.