Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

Conspicuous by his absence.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.