We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

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

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.