Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.