I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
With words we govern men.
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy’s ideal of a manly career.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man’s desires.
A man’s fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
Beauty can inspire miracles.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.