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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that...  
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.  
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before ...  
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way,...  
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts ...  
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who fe...  
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are s...  
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to t...  
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with th...  
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot ...  
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly a...  
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.  
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that fe...  
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.