People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Beauty is a frail good.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.