“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Success is the child of audacity.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

There is no education like adversity.

Travel teaches toleration.

Justice is truth in action.

Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.