 Never take anything for granted. |
| He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. |
| Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. |
| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. |
| Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. |
| The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. |
| Silence is the mother of truth. |
| In politics nothing is contemptible. |
| Adventures are to the adventurous. |
| A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. |
| The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. |
| Despair is the conclusion of fools. |
| Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. |
| Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. |
| There is no education like adversity. |
| One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. |
| War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. |
| Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. |
| The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. |
| Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. |
