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.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

We walk alone in the world.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.