Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

We must bear what Heaven sends.