» If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
» Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
» He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
» He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
» We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
» The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
» This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
» That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
» What shall he fear that does not fear death.
» No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.