No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.