No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.