Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.