Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.