Faith is necessary to victory.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.