Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
He who gains time gains everything.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.