Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

There is a skeleton in every house.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.