People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

The only security is courage.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.