He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.