Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Great men never require experience.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.