Hope is the mother of faith.

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

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Children are what the mothers are.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.