Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

Ignorance never settles a question.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

We moralize among ruins.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.