To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.