The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

He can afford to be a fool.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.