Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

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

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.