In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound

Hope is the best part of our riches

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities