A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.