The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.