To build is to be robbed.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears