Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
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.
O God, how lovely still is life!
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.