“The human voice is the organ of the soul.”
“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”
“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
“Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.”
“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.”
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
“Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.”
“Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.”
“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
“Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.”
“One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.”
“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.”
“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
“No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.”
“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
“I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.”
“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
“To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.”
“Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.”
“Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.”
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”
“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
“Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!”
“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
“You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.”
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.”