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.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

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?

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.