Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.