Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.