A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.