Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Example has far more followers than reason.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.