» The will to do, the soul to dare.
» Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
» Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
» Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
» Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
» Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
» There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
» The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
» To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
» Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!