There is a woman at the begining of all great things

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic

Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim

Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them