Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
All is race – there is no other truth.
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
Books are the curse of the human race.
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
Meditation is culture.
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.