The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Honesty's the best policy.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.