Modesty and dew love the shade.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.