If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.