Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.