Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.