Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.