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

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

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

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.