Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Be not a slave of words.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.