Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

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