The love of glory a virtue! A strange virtue truly, that calls to its aid the co-operation of all the vices, that finds stimulants in ambition, envy, vanity, sometimes even avarice! Would Titus have been Titus had he had as his ministers Sejanus, Narcissus, and Tigellinus?
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. ’Tis a necessary evil.
Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it you.
That to feel makes one think is pretty generally admitted; that to think makes one feel finds less acceptance, but is almost as true.
The intelligence is often to the heart what the library of a mansion is to the person of its master.