The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Whatever you do, you need courage.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.