Good order is the foundation of all things.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.