Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

There is one mind common to all individual men

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.