If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

Children are what the mothers are.

Cats like men are flatterers.

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

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.