Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.