Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.