Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.