Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

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

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

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

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.