The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.