While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.