“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.”

“The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended into it's natural state”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”

“The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.”

“A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.”

“She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.”