One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.