It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

To a valet no man is a hero.