Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
