We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.