Never utter the truism but live it among men.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.