A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.