It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

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.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.