The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.