False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.