Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.