Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.