Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.