Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.