A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.