Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.