Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Fear of death is worse than dying.