Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.