Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.