» Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
» Calculation never made a hero.
» To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
» The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
» Growth is the only evidence of life.
» It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
» To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
» In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.