A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.