Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
