There is no true orator who is not a hero.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.