A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.