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.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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.