No great genius has ever been without some madness.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The quality of a life is determined by its activities.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.