Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.