Men's language is as their lives.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.