History is the study of the world's crime

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.