We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.