Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.