Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future