Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.