Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
Everything in this world depends upon will.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.