Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Laws die, books never.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.