Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.