That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.