The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
He made all countries where he came his own.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.