No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

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

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.