A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

Principle is a passion for truth.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.