Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Wait and hope!
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.