Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

Gray is the color of all theory

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

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

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.