The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

Fact is stranger than fiction.