Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.