The most terrible of all things is terror.
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.