“For they conquer who believe they can.”
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
“Repentance is but want of power to sin.”
“To die is landing on some distant shore.”
“All objects lose by too familiar a view.”
“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
“Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.”
“Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.”
“Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.”
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
“He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.”
“Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.”
“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”
“Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.”
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.”
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
“Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.”
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
“Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
“Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.”
“It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.”
“Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”
“Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.”
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.”
“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”