No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.