Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.