The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

Words of love are works of love.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.