Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.