I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.