Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.