Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.