He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
“Every man is eloquent once in his life.”
“No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.”
“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”
“But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”
“Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.”
“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”