My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Do what you're afraid to do.