A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.