Despair swallows up cowardice.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.