Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

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

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.

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

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?