The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.