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.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

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.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.