Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.