Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.