Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?