Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.