The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.