The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.