Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

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