I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.