"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain yo…"

"The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of li…"

"Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by s…"

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury …"

"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

"The public have neither shame or gratitude."

"All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it."

"You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."