The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.