Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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.