Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.