To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Man is an imitative creature.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
To save all we must risk all.
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.