Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Always scorn appearances and you always may.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.