All Sayings

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

If a lion knew his own strength, it were hard for any man to rule him.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man.

I have been a soldier for twenty years, and in all that time, I have never seen a man so brave as to be afraid of a woman.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is toiling in this art that God has given me to increase my life.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend me completely to its will.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.