Every offense is avenged on earth.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Faith is hidden household capital.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.