“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”
“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”
“Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.”
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
“The purpose firm is equal to the deed.”
“By night an atheist half believes in God.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
“To leave a sting within a brother's heart.”
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
“Those who build beneath the stars build too low.”
“All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.”
“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.”
“Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the”