We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

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

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

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

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.