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

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.