The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.