Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.