Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Our best thoughts come from others.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.