These are the times when a genius wants to live.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what