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

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.