Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.