Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.