Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.