He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.