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.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling