The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.