The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.