The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

Whatever you do, you need courage.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The first wealth is health.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.