Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

What is human is immortal!