The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.