He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.