He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.