Calamity is the test of integrity.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

He only who gave life has a power over it.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.