Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.