Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.