A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

To-day is always different from yesterday.