Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred de VignyHonour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
Alfred de VignyWhat it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred de Vigny