"All our dignity consists in thought."

"We are generally more persuaded by the reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have been discovered by others."

"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play."

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."

"To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils."