The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.