All is possible for those who dare to die!

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

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

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

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.