Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.