To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.
Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem