I am better than my reputation

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.