Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

All is possible for those who dare to die!

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.