Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.