Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.