What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.