“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
“Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”
“Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
“The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.”
“The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.”
“What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
“Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”
“In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.”
“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”
“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”
“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.”
“Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.”
“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.”
“Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”