For Love will still be lord of all.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.