There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.